[ SECRET POST #6842 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6842 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

08. https://i.imgur.com/7wdWFjE.png

[(Anonymous)]

my eyes hurt

[(Anonymous)]

lol same

[(Anonymous)]

Eh. There are different types of unrealistic though. Like, the good old "there shouldn't be black people in this fantasy world based on Northern Europe while dragons exist without issue"? Weak argument. "These characters are human and can drink more than their body weight in alcohol" - kinda unrealistic unless it's been established that they have some sort of "I can survive acute alcohol poisoning" thing in place. Also, a lot of people use "unrealistic" as a shorthand for what you describe at the end of the secret.

[(Anonymous)]

How about "these characters are human and can drink more than their body weight in alcohol, also dragons exist"?

[(Anonymous)]

Dragons existing doesn't change the biological makeup of the human body unless explicitely stated.

[philstar22]

Yup. What matters to me is consistency with the particular rules of the world/universe the story is set in.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed!

I've found that most people who like to argue about "unrealistic" usually end up being bigots or racists or sexist. It's usually "unrealistic" for women or people of color to exist.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, people who aren't bigots of some kind are usually interested in working through *why* something seems unrealistic, bigot just like screaming about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I can get behind machine processing happening on a condensed timeline, I am okay with assuming the characters went through all the safety procedures required, and I can handle injuries not being handled how they should be (I can't think of any canon that hasn't fallen down there), and I don't really like it when certain procedural violations are just completely dismissed with no consequences, but that happens a lot in many canons, so I just kind of sigh. However, if you write your characters traveling across the US by car in six hours, I'm going to need there to be an explanation - magic, wormhole, rocket car, you decided your US is roughly the size of Germany, it was all a dream, something.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, for real.

One that have bothered me recently was a medical fic (set in the US) that totally ignored patient privacy/HIPAA. It wasn't some otherworldly fantasy setting with mpreg and A/B/O, either. People really do just be gossiping about the characters' test results and medical details with their family, like wtf.

[(Anonymous)]

I think both of the above examples would count as in the group mentioned in the secret as exempt though: set in a real world country in a real world time period with real world humans and no obvious supernatural elements. That isn't really what OP is dismissing.

[(Anonymous)]

My opinion is that if it only seems unrealistic when you overthink it, it's valid. I don't even like most romcoms that much, but the nitpick that it's unrealistic for two people to fall in love in a couple days is useless. No movie actually takes place for an entire day, let alone two or more. Movies last a few hours at most. If a highbrow movie can use its two hours to show you two people falling in love over what in-story is a few years, and you can buy that in the time you're SHOWN, you could buy it happening over a few days. What matters is if the quality of the writing is good enough to convince you based on what you're shown.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't take statements of "[ ] is unrealistic/so fake" seriously, because it tends to be from people who make whole ass claims on things based off their own experiences and maybe based off this thing someone somewhere said once that supports their beliefs (therefore it's completely legit and requires no questioning or further thought).
I also know not to trigger their persecution complex by questioning them.

It's a real waste of time and energy. I get pissed off over something that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
So I usually change the subject or remain silent.

[(Anonymous)]

No. Every universe has its rules, every character has their faults and values. That is decided by canon, and canon alone. Just as any universe must reside over any character it presides over, that same character themselves must react as they would regardless of the precedence. They must react as they would as their origin committed to, there is no exceptions.